Party on Garth

The Holiday Inn San Antonio North in San Antonio, Texas has only been open for five months. It still has that new hotel smell. It still has that new hotel attitude. I liked it.

The hotel is very proud of the fact that they have been chosen Trip Advisor's "Number One" hotel in San Antonio, as they should be. I will agree that the property is very nice. The staff were well trained and extremely cordial. Everything was clean and comfortable, and I had an excellent club sandwich at the hotel restaurant/bar. I loved the bartender. Not only was he efficient and pleasant, he was also working on his final design project for semester finals in-between customers. I thought that was cute. I tipped him a couple of extra bucks and considered it an investment in his education.

After dinner I went back to my room to relax and was serenaded by the (very loud) music wafting into my room from the building next door. It went on most of the evening. That was something I'd never encountered before. I wonder if I would have heard it if my room was on the other side of the hotel?

But now I will announce that I found the single most wonderful invention ever in this hotel... the "constant fan" button. The room air conditioner/heater unit had a button that said constant fan. Now why did it take so long for hotels to figure that out? The fact that I could choose a loud fan in this room completely blocked out the party next door and I slept like a baby.

Good job, Holiday Inn San Antonio North. I'll be back!